Michelle Trachtenberg

Unlike many of her peers, Michelle Trachtenberg did not have to become a tabloid headliner or paparazzi favorite to secure her status as one of Hollywood's most sought after actresses. She simply rose...
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Supermodel Heidi Klum outdid herself by transforming into a realistic-looking butterfly for her annual Halloween party on Friday (31Oct14). The TV personality, who is famed for her elaborate costumes, was unrecognisable as the colourful insect as her nose disappeared under prosthetics and large fly eyes and feelers were attached to her head.
Klum, who documented the lengthy make-up process on her Twitter.com page, wore a multi-coloured leotard with attached wings while the rest of her body was painted blue and purple with black spots.
She celebrated her annual party at TAO Downtown nightclub in New York with guests including Joe Jonas, actor Benjamin McKenzie, Michelle Trachtenberg and singer Ashanti.
Her previous costumes include a robot, Cleopatra and an old lady.

Late comedienne Joan Rivers has been posthumously nominated for an acting prize at the Women's Image Network (WIN) Awards. The Fashion Police co-host, who died in September (14), will compete against Modern Family's Julie Bowen, New Girl star Zooey Deschanel and Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus for the Best Actress in a Comedy Series award at the 16th annual prizegiving.
Rivers' daughter Melissa is also co-nominated with producer Lisa Bacon for the Comedy Series Produced by a Woman award for their work on an episode of Fashion Police.
Diane Kruger, Lena Headey, Vera Farmiga and Katey Sagal have also been recognised for their performances in TV dramas while Julia Roberts, her niece Emma Roberts, Whoopi Goldberg and Michelle Trachtenberg are up for the Actress in Made-for-TV Movie/Miniseries.
Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes is nominated for a production award while Girls star Lena Dunham will compete for a writing prize.
The WIN Awards, which honour females in TV and film, will take place on 14 December (14) in California.
Rivers died a week after suffering a cardiac arrest during a routine throat procedure at a clinic in New York.

Rapper Kid Cudi has sparked rumours he is dating actress Michelle Trachtenberg after enjoying a night out together in Hollywood. The pair was photographed in a car together leaving the Chateau Marmont hotspot on Tuesday (08Apr14), prompting speculation of a new romance.
The stars have yet to comment on the claims.
Trachtenberg was previously linked to rocker Pete Wentz, while Cudi reportedly used to date Amanda Bynes.

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg has struck up an unlikely friendship with British royal Princess Eugenie. The pair was spotted laughing and chatting while attending a basketball game between the Atlanta Hawks and the New York Knicks at Manhattan's fabled Madison Square Garden venue on Saturday (14Dec13). The younger cousin of princes William and Harry recently moved to the Big Apple from London to work on art auction website Paddle8.

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg does not have fond memories of her school days in Brooklyn, New York, revealing she was "severely bullied" by classmates. The former Gossip Girl star admits she hasn't kept in touch with anyone from her childhood because of the torment she experienced.
She tells the New York Daily News, "There really aren't people back in Brooklyn that I like. Every once in a while someone will come up to me and they'll say something like, 'Oh! You went to school in Brooklyn...' and it's hard for me to respond favourably...
"To be honest, all of those kids were very mean to me. Very cruel. It was horrible."
Despite her difficult time in school, the actress still loves her hometown and would like to return if she becomes a mum.
She continues, "I love Brooklyn. I love that I came from there. And in the future if I'm lucky enough to have kids... the struggle for me will be where to raise them, because I am quite proud of my Brooklyn roots."

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg had to call on her mother to help her nail her Russian for new movie Killing Kennedy after realising she didn't know enough of the language to portray alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's wife Marina. The former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star is fluent in basic Russian thanks to her parents' Soviet heritage - but she admits she couldn't master some of the more difficult scenes as the wife of the man who allegedly shot President John F. Kennedy.
She explains, "(My mom) translated the entire script for me; we wrote it out phonetically, so that I knew the exact pronunciations.
"I'm fluent in Russian, but I didn't grow up, luckily, with sentences like, 'You can't see your children. Hide the guns. Don't shoot the president!' That was not in my repertoire as a six year old.
"There were different conjugations... I had to change it to a housewife in the late 1950s."
And her mother's language skills were noted by producers, who listed Mrs. Trachtenberg as a consultant on the film in the credits.

"About 10 days before filming, my father passed away, so a lot of the scenes that I was in I was still dealing with the emotional repercussions of that situation... I'm in a better place now... (but) it was still so fresh at the time." Actress Michelle Trachtenberg finds it difficult watching scenes from her new TV movie Killing Kennedy.

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg is keen to meet the widow of the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy after portraying her in new TV movie Killing Kennedy. Marina Oswald has always made it clear she does not want to be associated with what her husband allegedly did way back in 1963, and so the actress refused to try and track her down as she researched her latest role.
But she admits she would love to meet up with the Russian, who is now in her 70s.
She tells U.S. news show Access Hollywood Live, "Of the main players in the movie, she's the only one who's still alive... When I started to do my research, there was a minimal amount of information about her; I found an out-of-print biography, called Marina and Lee, which is a huge, thick book that I brought to set... but she didn't really exist to me.
"I found a YouTube video of her on the 30th anniversary (of the assassination) saying, 'My husband was innocent', so I didn't want to disrespect her in any way... but if she would ever like to meet me it would have to be on her terms."

There was a time when we all knew Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn, Buffy's little sister who wasn't really her sister but was actually her sister. (Confused? Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. How have you missed out for so long?) She's also known for her part as Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl. But now Trachtenberg is taking on a much different kind of role as Russian immigrant Marina Oswald on National Geographic's Killing Kennedy. She plays the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald (played by Will Rothhaar, pictured below), John F. Kennedy's assassin. Killing Kennedy chronicles the final years of John F. Kennedy and Oswald and is based on the book by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. It will debut in November.
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Joined the cast of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (WB, 2000-2001; UPN, 2001-2003) in the role of Dawn Summers

Acted opposite Topher Grace and Anna Faris in "Take Me Home Tonight"

Joined the cast of Showtime's "Weeds"

Played an autistic child on the ABC daytime drama "All My Children"

Played the title character in the family film "Ice Princess"

Played Maggie Parker on the CBS sitcom "Meego"

Cast as nurse Chloe Payne on NBC's "Mercy"

Made feature film debut playing the title role in "Harriet the Spy"

Made TV-movie debut in "Christmas in My Hometown" (CBS)

Landed a recurring role on the Nickelodeon series "Clarissa Explains It All"

Co-starred in the thriller "Black Christmas"

Acted in a recurring role on Nickelodeon's "The Adventures of Pete and Pete"

Cast in a multi-episode arc as a scheming socialite on The CW series "Gossip Girl"

Made debut in a TV commercial for Wisk at age three

Played a recurring role as a pop princess who hires Keith (Mathew St. Patrick) as a bodyguard on the HBO series "Six Feet Under"

Co-starred with Zac Efron and Matthew Perry in the comedy "17 Again"

Summary

Unlike many of her peers, Michelle Trachtenberg did not have to become a tabloid headliner or paparazzi favorite to secure her status as one of Hollywood's most sought after actresses. She simply rose from cute child star to serious performer in just a few short years, giving nice girls everywhere someone to model their careers after. She also had lots of fun along the way, playing diverse characters - from a young sleuth in the kiddie feature film "Harriet the Spy" (1996), to a butt-kicking teen in the iconic "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (WB, 1997-2001; UPN, 2001-03) series, to a controversial socialite on the catty "Gossip Girl" (CW, 2007- ).

Education

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Notre Dame High School

Notes

"One day I'd like to win an Oscar. But, I tell my mom if I ever get to be rude and demanding to let me know and I'll stop it. I don't want to be an actor like that." – Trachtenberg quoted in the Daily Variety, May 12, 1999

"The only tantrum I've ever thrown was when I watched an annoying girl doing a Barbie commercial on TV, and I screamed 'Mommy, I can do that better!' I was three years old at the time." – Trachtenberg quoted in Vanity Fair, Aug. 2004